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Nothing scales like a Deere 1936 John Deere. Gilson Rieke, of Ruthven, Iowa, started farming 45 years ago on his father's tractor, a 1936 International. After finishing high school, he worked as a farm machinery mechanic, and got to know tractors piece by piece. All the while his hobby has been making miniatures, mainly of walnut. Six years ago, Rieke drove a tractor into one bay of his twocar garage, and in the other bay, where his woodshop is, he duplicated every visible part of that tractor, to he had a model of the 1936 International he first drove. He's made five different miniatures this way, borrowing neighbors' tractors for variety, but they're all 1936 models. That's what he started on. lis scale. Five hundred hours later, 1936 International, top left and at left. Phoros: Genelli